Biography

How did Fiendens Musik come about? To answer that question I’ll have to try to paint a picture of Sweden in that period. The leftist movement of 1968 of course hit Sweden like a lot of other countries. But maybe it was more narrowed down to just students from the middle class here. A lot of them went out to work in the industry with the purpose to make the workers aware of "the oppression" and start a revolution, but since most workers lived in villas and drove new Volvos, they had little if any success. After all, we had a social democrat government for 40 years. If any should start a revolution, you’d think it would be the right wing, not the left. Some of the left-wing organisations fell apart in the 70’s, others were radicalized. There were Maoists and Moscow-followers and people with contacts with the RAF in Germany and PLO in Palestine. In the early 70’s there was another movement growing, called "den svenska musikrörelsen”, the Swedish music movement. The idea was to play your own songs, and sing in Swedish, not English. Of course it was a leftist movement, but the bands and artists spanned from very political to more poetic expressions. From Stalin and Mao to hippies, you could say. So there was a lot of discussion in this movement. The Maoists even printed a pamphlet titled ”Folket kan inte segra till fiendens musik” - ”The people cannot win to the music of the enemy”.